Word: forwarders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forward Observer. This is not new for Snow, who has always evaded the unutterably difficult process of fictional creation, partly by projecting his alter ego into his books as a central character, partly by believing as Wordsworth did that the story of men's lives can be made passionately interesting by the mere assertion that it is so. In The Sleep of Reason, despite Snow's best efforts, Eliot remains a mere observer. For though Eliot never permits himself the indulgence of easy indignation over the crime, he cannily refuses to press thought to its extremes. He ends...
...works," and for an essayist that was enough. It is not enough for a novelist. In The Sleep of Reason, Eliot seems motivated largely by Snow's need to have him in a particular place at a particular moment in order to function as a fictional forward observer. It is an excessively willful way to construct fiction, but perfectly in keeping with the motto on Lord Snow's coat of arms: Aut inveniam viam aut faciam-"I shall either find a way or make...
...itchily and angrily at home nearly anywhere else as they are in dreary old Leipzig. Fries' hero, Arlecq, escapes to West Berlin in search of Oobliadooh, a storied dreamland delineated in song by Dizzy Gillespie, a prince of bebop. Sickened by the banalities of Communist bureaucracy, Arlecq looks forward to the delights of the West (or "the WEST," as he put it). When he finally does reach Oobliadooh, he finds things just as unsatisfactory as they were back home. "I must insist on a little more enthusiasm," his friend and fellow refugee Paasch says severely. So back they...
Sophomore guard Dave Wohl leads the Penn scorers with a 15.6 average, followed by the 6-1 senior Andrews at 14.2. Robbins has 11.1 and another sophomore guard, Steve Bilsky has 10.9. 6-8 forward Jim Wolf leas the rebounders with an average of 10.7. Penn's record is 4-5 and 0-1 in the Ivy League...
Three veterans pace the Princeton team, always an Ivy threat. Senior center Chris Thomford and forward John Hummer and Geoff Petrie are capable, experienced ballplayers who rebound and shoot well...